Sewing - Memory Quilt

My sister asked me if I would make a memory quilt for my niece's 2nd birthday.
Despite having only made one quilt before, I agreed.

A short time later, my sister provided me with a massive box of baby clothes from my niece's first 3 months or so. I selected a few specific items with fun logos on. The centerpiece was to be the baby-grow with "Born in 2013" on it. My sister told me that she especially liked a baby-grow with some clouds on, so I combined those to produce a fab center square, as shown to the right.

Because the baby clothes are all made from jersey, which is stretchy, I ironed interfacing onto the back of all of the pieces before cutting them out. This has two benefits: it stops the stretching (mostly) and also means that you can draw on the seam-lines.

I made a few other combined blocks to try to produce 5 columns of approximately the same width.


Once I'd finished piecing the quilt, I had to find some nice backing fabric for it. I found this lovely poly-cotton with fun animals on, and after checking with my sister, this was deemed to be appropriate.

I then stitched a 1/4" seam around each block. Every single block, including the small ones. that made for a lot of ends to weave in, but it looks really nice.

I had some grey binding left over from my last quilt, so I decided that this would be a good bet for this quilt too. (I'm very fond of the Klona cotton)

I'm really pleased with how this came out, and my sister loves it too!